WordNet
n. a squall advancing along a front that forms a definite line
Usage examples of "line squall".
Like an animal in the jungle or a fish in the sea, one always had to be on guard: against the unknown sail and the unknown cloud - for an innocent grey cloud could in five minutes become a vicious line squall which, catching a ship all aback, might send her masts crashing by the board or shred the sails from the yards.
He was thinking of the cabin cruiser they d sighted earlier in the day If the cruiser was going to approach the island, the logical time to do it would be in the wake of the thunderstormfar enough back to be out of the line squall that would precede the storm, but also close enough to take advantage of the uproar of the storm.
Suddenly from behind them came a shattering explosion, and a shock-wave of disrupted air swept over them like a tropical line squall.
Astern, a line squall was bearing down on them, a solid line of black clouds against the sky.
I'd be more scared of her than of a carrier landing at night in a line squall.
Beyond it a wall of white fury reached from horizon to horizona line squall.
Then another line squall, another instant wall of water, crashed across the Defalkan fort.